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Do National Histories Affect National Identities? Ancient Athens, Byzantium and Greece Today, a Survey Experiment

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Do national histories affect national identities? Most nations have complex and multiple pasts. Nationalist historians can smooth over discontinuities by either merging them into an unbroken national narrative or by skipping over pasts that do not fit the story.
Peter Gries   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Books of hours as codified compi-lations of compilations

open access: yesJournal of Historical Network Research, 2023
Books of hours were the medieval best-seller. Imitating the model of liturgical books and intended for the faithful, these devotional manuscripts contain a common core of offices and texts, and they seem to have a standardized content.
Dominique Stutzmann, Louis Chevalier
doaj  

On footnotes in slavonic liturgical texts: alternative readings in Octoechos at the end of the 19th century [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия ИИ. История, история Русской Православной Церкви, 2018
The author reports on the history of the introduction of footnotes placed in kavyki in the printed editions of the Church Slavonic Octoechos. The author shows that footnotes placed in kavyki fi rst occur in the Uchebny Oktoikh (Octoechos for Study ...
Aleksandr Andreev
doaj   +1 more source

The Sixth Scroll: The Ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence (2011–2025) as part of broader efforts by Israeli Jewish renewal organizations to craft a national counter‐narrative. It argues that reframing the Declaration as a quasi‐sacred text—situated within the Jewish traditional corpus and recited with Biblical ...
Adi Sherzer
wiley   +1 more source

The Way of the Gift [PDF]

open access: yes, 1989
(Excerpt) In his classic work on stewardship Helge Brattgard said that it is only as the Spirit of God, working through Word and Sacrament, leads [people] to be grateful for spiritual and material gifts received, and to see their responsibility for the ...
Smith, Ralph F
core   +1 more source

The Material and Textual Value of Manuscript and Print Binding Waste☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract In 2019, the Foundation of Christ's Hospital at Lincoln made a bequest of early printed books to the Bodleian Library. The collection is rich in sixteenth‐century tooled bindings, many of which preserve manuscript and printed waste in the form of pastedowns, endleaves and endleaf guards.
Tamara Atkin
wiley   +1 more source

Liturghia, text esențial în formarea caracterului moral și spiritual al culturii române [PDF]

open access: yesRevista de Istorie și Teorie Literară, 2016
For the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, we have established its place within the Romanian culture by summarizing the history of the liturgical text on two levels: on the ethical one and on the cultural ages level; by the methods of observation and ...
Ana Bobu
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Salis est: Ecumenical Catalyst or Narrow Reductionism? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
(Excerpt) It is also taught among us that one holy Christian church will be and remain focever. This is the assembly of all believers [or saints ] among whom the Gospel is preached in its purity and the holy sacraments are administered according to the ...
Johnson, Maxwell E
core   +1 more source

An Iona of the East : the early-medieval monastery at Portmahomack, Tarbat Ness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
A new research programme located on the Tarbat peninsula in north-east Scotland offers the first large-scale exposure of a monastery in the land of the Picts.
Carver, Martin
core   +1 more source

From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
wiley   +1 more source

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